Bruce McGill

Milo Ventimigila's midseason show has yet to premiere on The WB, but he's already looking to next season. The one-time "Gilmore Girls" star is among another large crop of actors taking pilot duty, along with "The Lord of the Rings'" Sean Bean, Jaime...

A self-consciously modest film from an immodestly talented director, Ridley Scott's "Matchstick Men" comes equipped with a major star (Nicolas Cage), a ripe second banana (Sam Rockwell) and the regulation pretty face (Alison Lohman). The script was co-...

Friday May 15, 1998      In the beguilingly offbeat "Lawn Dogs," Australian director John Duigan, who has always had an affinity for outcasts and the young, and Kentucky poet and playwright Naomi Wallace team up to create a memorable fable of...

Friday November 5, 1999      Unlikely material can inspire exceptional films: witness "The Insider." What could sound less promising than the legal fuss surrounding one man's indecision about telling what he knows about cigarettes, unless it's the...

Friday November 3, 2000      No golf course in America is as carefully manicured as "The Legend of Bagger Vance." A highly polished genteel fantasy about the game of golf and its relation to, yes, the game of life, "Bagger Vance" is so meticulous in...

It has been suggested that summer has already begun at the cineplexes, with the huge opening for ``The Scorpion King." Whether The Rock has legs as well as arms will be seen. But well before Memorial Day, the traditional start of summer, the long season...

There are two sure things in the sleekly machined legal thriller "Runaway Jury." One is that grizzled screen veterans Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman — playing a pair of grizzled courtroom combatants — will engage in an ethical shootout in...

Friday February 21, 1997      The need to bear witness against atrocity, to testify that something wicked this way came, is the powerful drive that animates "Rosewood," the story of an American tragedy so horrific no one talked about it for more than...